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Glenn Scarborough
Part 2

Well this is embarrassing, My old brain got the movie and the tv series crossed up.  I watched the movie last night to refresh my memory and realized they dont interact with anyone but one old man they meet in the ruins of Washington, DC.  In the TV series they have a lot of interactions with people outside the domed city.  This movie was actually based on a book and I may read it over break.
So Logan and his mate escape the city looking for sanctuary.  During there escape they learn of the old ways people used to raise animals for food.  I think this stood out to me from reading a fellow students post on co-philosophy. ritas post.  Back in the 70's people were not as concerned with being a vegetarian and I don't believe Veganism was even a word.  Logan's mate, Jessica 6, made the comment about how barbaric people must have been back then (our time). When they escape the city they meet the sun questioning, "What is it?"

 As they progress looking for sanctuary they run across a grave yard and have no idea what the headstones are.  In there society the dead are immediately vaporized, no funeral and no grieving.  When they get into the old city they meet the old man and learn about death and burial.  They were amazed that he was born in his mother and raised by his parents.  They also met cats, apparently they have no pets in the domed city.  Trying not to review the movie here so fast forward to the end of it, Logan and Jessica take the old man to the city where they question where the water that pours into the city comes from.  They had no idea what weather was or how the environment worked. They quickly destroy the city by overloading the computer that runs the city by using Logan's memories of what lies outside the city.  The computer couldn't handle the truth. The citizens escape the city and are amazed at the outside and meet the old man.  The end. (of the movie).

So was the domed city really a Utopia?  The people were happy and healthy, seemed to have no worries.  If they wanted sex, they just pushed a button and someone was transported to there home. Tinder of the future.

 They didn't have to worry about paying bills or where there next meal was coming from.  They depended on the city to provide for them.  If they wanted a new face or body they could have one in minutes.  But even though they were happy, were they really?  I thin back to all the good times and bad times in my life.  Of course non of us want to experience bad times but we learn from them and I believe they help us understand the realities of life.  I don't believe the people under the dome actually understood what life really is.  Its  like a cat that I had, never bothered me for human food because I never gave her any.  One day my best friend gave here a french fry before I could stop him.  After that i couldn't eat fries around her without her begging.  LOL, I love that cat.
so, would we consider the domed city a dystopia?  fortunately for me, another student in our class did my work for me in his post on Co-Philosophy. Nicholas's post.  He covers this subject very well and I really cant explain it better than he did.  Good job.
My belief is that Utopia does exist, but only in our own minds, in our spirit and our beliefs.  Life is what we make it.  If we keep a negative attitude we will always live in a dystopia.  If we keep a positive attitude we will always live in Utopia.  When the government provides for all and tells us how to live we miss out on a lot of experience and we fail to be an individual with our own thoughts and beliefs.  How can this be a Utopia?  Without the human essence how can we truly be human?  Thoughts to ponder.

 This is a very interesting interview with the writer of the movie and several other sci-phi movies.

 The old man in the old city talks about his cats and there names.   Logan and Jessica learn a lot from his philosophical way of thinking and talking.  They finally learn what life truly is about.

 and to wrap this up, we were instructed to make this fun so here is a little family guy.